People waiting on a general admission line to get into the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Sunday, August 7 Photo: AP

It seems that Alexander McQueen is continuing to make waves almost 18 months after his death. The designer, who broke all the rules of the fashion world, yet won the hearts of it's harshest critics, has been the subject of a petition gaining thousands of signatures to bring his retrospective to London.

McQueen's life and work was celebrated with an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in New York earlier this year. The show, which was the Met's most viewed fashion exhibition to date, attracted over 650,000 visitors after having its run extended due to popular demand. Since the launch of the retrospective the great and the good of fashion have been campaigning to bring the exhibition to where they believe is its true home: London.

Only now have McQueen's representatives confirmed that they are in talks with major museums. They released a statement saying "Alexander McQueen appreciates the huge amount of interest the public has shown towards the Savage Beauty exhibition. We have been in discussion with a number of major venues in London for some time now however nothing has been finalised. Please be assured that an official announcement will be made the moment we confirm our plans for London."

Given that the exhibition was made especially for the Met Museum's gallery space and McQueen's love of extraordinary venues we can understand the curator's apprehensiveness. Perhaps we should hurry along the process and give the people at McQueen a little helping hand. Any venue suggestions anyone?